Our tree is gone...

Okay, it's not really our tree, but the gigantic oak we took our engagement pictures in front of was just taken down yesterday. Today, there's nothing left but a stump. I wish I'd had the camera with me, but I don't regularly carry it with me to work! Apparently they (whoever "they" are - I'm guessing some university-employed risk assessors) decided that the tree was unsafe. Okay, yes it's between two buildings, mine and the library. Yes, if it decided to fall over, it would probably do some damage to the library. So, was it at risk? I saw the trunk, in pieces, after they had cut it up into manageable sections. The core was rotten. By core I mean about a 1 foot diameter section. There was a thickness of significantly more than a foot surrounding this core the whole circumference of the trunk! If we were to model this tree as a straw, you would have an opening less than half the radius of the straw!!!! It clearly had lots more life in it (no, it didn't have any obvious diseases - it was healthy in appearance over all its branches - I am just a layman though).

We'll miss having that tree around. It was a reminder of the start of our lives together and we liked the idea of having something so old and great at our beginning. Farewell tall oak!


PS - We'll have pictures of our new appliances up soon, if we can bear the embarrassment of how bad our old cabinets look with the new appliances. More incentive to get the kitchen done I guess.

PPS - Megan has some good pics of Calvin and Diana around the house I'm sure she'll post at some point. Probably when she gets over the cold I gave her.